'Dark patterns' of journalism revealed

It isn't every day that a friend's website makes the news, but just a couple of days after talking about it in my presentation at EuroIA, Harry Brignull's excellent 'Dark Patterns' website is getting a rather wider exposure, as the source for a story in this morning's Metro.

Hayden Smith's piece, though, inadvertently reveals some of journalism's very own 'dark patterns' when covering web-based stories. In print there is no mention of the URL of Harry's site, and on the web there is, of course, no link.